How do I pin to Pinterest

[poppyshandcrafted1 (Chris Pope)]

Hi, I’ve just come back to Folksy after a few years on the dark side.
Previously when you listed a new item, you could share this to Pinterest.
I’ve listed my products but can’t see any links to enable to share my items to Pinterest. Any tips people please?

[Caroleecrafts]

I use an iPad and this is how I do it. Go to the page of the item I want to pin. Click in the box with and up arrow at the top of the page

Select Pinterest

Pop up screen appears and can select which board to post to

[ccbandatp (CornishCraftwork)]

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There’s another thread with lots of information about using Pinterest you might find helpful. I haven’t got myself in gear for this yet but it’s on my to do list

[SteampunkCreativeEngineering (Mick)]

@poppyshandcrafted1 I think I know the button you mean, you see it when you publish a new listing, near the top of the page?

I think that if you go to your shop dashboard then ‘shop appearance’ well down that page there is a box to enter your Pinterest profile page url, hopefully filling this in will get you the button?

[Caroleecrafts]

The Pinterest button was removed a few years ago but you can add one to your bookmark bar. If using Mac’s you will find it as described abive on iMac, iPads and iPhone.

[SueTrevor (Sue)]

Pinterest and X are still there when you publish a new item at least it is on my samsung tablet. But you have to do it straight away or it dissappears!

[SteampunkCreativeEngineering (Mick)]

Yes, same on a windows pc, I used the Pinterest button on Friday.

[Caroleecrafts]

Not sure it is on the app or I missed it.

[poppyshandcrafted1 (Chris Pope)]

Thank you so much, I just couldn’t work it out x

[poppyshandcrafted1 (Chris Pope)]

Thank you so much x

[poppyshandcrafted1 (Chris Pope)]

I use an iPad, but that’s probably where I went wrong, as I went back to it and couldn’t see anything x

[SteampunkCreativeEngineering (Mick)]

You’re welcome
I think that on an iPad Caroline’s @Caroleecrafts method, detailed above, is the only way

[thecrimsonrabbit (Debbie Seton)]

Don’t forget that if you pin directly from the Folksy product page, that pin won’t be a ‘proper’ pin on your Pinterest account that you created, just something you saved. If you’re pinning just for quickness to bookmark or to purposely share Folksy listings, that works great, but if you’re trying to get your own Pinterest traffic growing, you ideally want to create the pin from scratch from your Pinterest account.

The discussion Anne linked is really useful if you’re interested in developing your Pinterest account.